Illinois Supreme Court June 18, 1892 (Green v. Capps)

Mr. Justice Scholfield

delivered the opinion of the Court:

Appellees filed their, bill in chancery, for partition, in the court below. Appellant answered the bill, denying that appellees were seized of any interest in the land therein described, and alleging that the deed, under which they claim title in the ancestor of whom they sue as heirs-at-law, was, in fact, but a mortgage, and that the